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University Dally Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1963
Around the Campus
Professor Reports To Congress
When Congress begins consideration of a proposed National Humanities Foundation Tuesday, its members will be reading a report a KU professor helped to write.
Prof. John C. Greene of the KU history department contributed to the report as a member of the History of Science Society.
The report proposes establishment of a National Humanities Foundation, similar to the National Science Foundation. Such an organization would support research in and teaching of languages, literature, history, and philosophy. Also supported would be a study of the history and theory of art and music, the history and comparison of religion and law, and the performing arts.
Senator Claiborne Pell, D-R.L., has introduced a bill, based on the report and co-sponsored by 40 other senators, which proposes establishment of the foundation.
Congressman Robert Ellsworth of Kansas is one of 95 co-sponsors of a similar bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. William S. Moorhead, D-Pa.
"I am convinced that this legislation can have a profound effect on the kind of society we are capable of producing and on the future heritage of our nation," Senator Pell said. "We have placed understandable stress on the development of science and technology. Now we need to strive toward our potential in the realms of cultural progress."
The findings of several scholarly committees, including the one of which Professor Greene was a member, have been combined in a final report by the Commission on the Humanities, a 20-member group of widely known educators and executives.
Project Promotes Novel Heating
"Garbage may provide heat for homes in the future," John T. Pfeffer, assistant professor of civil engineering, said in a recent interview.
A research project now being conducted at KU's C. L. Burt Laboratory for Environmental Health is experimenting with a "digestive system" which converts garbage into methane gas. One such system is in operation in Indiana, Prof. Pfeffer said. It would take three pounds of waste material per person per day to supply three-quarters of the heating needs to a city.
This project is only one of many being carried on at the laboratory, which is a part of the School of Engineering.
Under a $5,000 grant from Smith and Loveless, Inc. staff and graduate students are working on a new type of sewage disposal plant. This involves using micro-organisms to process sewage. The bacteria cleanse the sewage but create nitrates, phosphates, and carbon dioxides which are all good fertilizers. To remove these gases, algae are used to consume them.
Such a plant will be used to process part of the sewage of Lawrence. This plant will begin operation this spring, Prof. Pfeffer said.
The C. L. Burt Laboratory is working on other projects primarily aimed at water processing.The laboratory has several grants to finance these projects.
Anthropologist Studies Indians
It's an old joke that Easterners think Indians still roam the Great Plains.
A KU professor of anthropology who was formerly a New Yorker never thought this when he came here, but he certainly knows the Indian lore and loot of the Great Plains past.
The National Park Service sent Carlyle S. Smith, also curator of anthropology in the KU Museum of Natural History, to excavate four sites in South Dakota over six summer field sessions beginning in 1950.
Smith is now writing his report for publication under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, having interrupted his study to take part in a 1955 Easter Island expedition led by Thor Heyerdahl of "Kon-Tiki" fame.
Smith says the 67,000 pieces of broken pottery and over 6,000 specimens such as bison hoes, bone scrappers and some European trade goods tell a great deal about early Indian cultures in South Dakota and the Great Plains.
Also revealing are the sites themselves. Talking Crow Site on the Fort Randall reservoir in South Dakota, named for the Sioux to whom the government allotted the land, shows an earth-lodge village bounded by a defensive ditch. One of the twelve houses left its own blueprint of a circular floor, a central fireplace and a cache for storing corn.
The sites and their artifacts have led Dr. Smith to the educated guess that the first civilization started in 1400, and were ancestors of the Arikara tribe first seen in the vicinity by Europeans in 1742. Since then the artifacts tell of three different but sequent occupations of the sites, probably due to the pressure of rare spring water.
"When I began in 1950 this was pioneer digging," Smith said. "When I finish the publication of the results, it will be one of the definitive works on archaeology in South Dakota."
Smith has not ignored the Indian cultures of his adopted state of Kansas, however, and plans digs on the Perry and Clinton reservoirs this spring and summer.
Professor of Geology Travels Around World
H. A. Ireland, professor of geology, could write a book about his recent travels and call it "Around the World in Seven Months."
Some of his experiences on a recent trip around the world, during a seven month sabbatical leave, might even rival the adventures in Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days."
Liberties Union Forms Chapter For This State
A new state-wide organization of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was formed yesterday when the Lawrence chapter joined with the Wichita chapter to form the Kansas Civil Liberties Union (KCLU).
ACLU and its affiliates are dedicated to the defense of rights such as freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion, due process and equal protection of the law.
The head of the KCLU is Richard Dyson, assistant professor of law.
Past cases which the ACLU has been involved in are academic and religious freedom, censorship, school desegregation and other racial discrimination matters, and rights of defendants in criminal actions.
In June 1964 President Johnson said, "The American Civil Liberties Union has an essential role at this critical time. It defends the rights of even the most deprised to speak, to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances.
"It protects the individual's constitutional guarantees of the right to counsel, to due process of law. It has come to symbolize racial justice and religious freedom."
"The Kansas affiliate of ACLU has about 350 members." Dyson said. "We have a lot of members in Topeka and Manhattan and we plan to establish chapters there soon."
The primary purpose of Prof. and Mrs. Ireland's trip was to collect samples from rocks of the Silurian period from everywhere that they could be found. The scientific expedition was financed by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Ireland collected 1050 samples of the rocks from many countries. The expedition was a scientific success and was full of adventure.
As KU's representative to the International Geological Congress in India this December, Prof. Ireland took part in a field trip to the Himalayan Mountains. He and 80 other geologists were isolated in Kashmir by an unprecedented two-foot snowfall. During the 17 day wait to be rescued the geologists formed a "Little Geological Congress" which had daily sessions of scientific discussion.
IN AUSTRIA, a geologist told Prof. Ireland where he could locate some rock samples. The KU professor followed directions and found himself high in the Austrian Alps. Dr. Ireland looked about him and saw that the Austrian geologist had marked off sections of rock with paint. "All I had to do was take samples from sections 12 through 15," Dr. Ireland quipped.
When Prof, and Mrs. Ireland arrived in Nationalist China they were honored at a banquet given by the head of the Chinese Geological Survey who had been stranded with Prof. Ireland in the Himalayas.
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